Timeline April 2020

Events in April 2020 8

• 1929 – 2020 Stirling Moss The Greatest Never to be Champion The most successful driver in terms of race wins never to win a World Championship.
• 1937 – 2020 John Conway (1937-2020) Died 11 April 2020, aged 82 John Conway was a British mathematician known for the Game of Life cellular automaton, group theory work and numerous contributions to recreational mathematics. He died of COVID-19 on 11 April 2020.
• 1952 – 2020 Rishi Kapoor (1952-2020) Died 30 April 2020, aged 67 Rishi Kapoor was a leading Bollywood actor from the noted Kapoor film dynasty, starring in over a hundred Hindi films across five decades. He died on 30 April 2020 following a two-year battle with leukemia.
• 1967 – 2020 Irrfan Khan (1967-2020) Died 29 April 2020, aged 53 Irrfan Khan was an Indian actor acclaimed for roles in Indian cinema and international films including Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire and Jurassic World. He died on 29 April 2020 after a battle with a neuroendocrine tumor.
• 2020 Wuhan lockdown China seals off city of 11 million to contain COVID-19 On 23 January 2020, Chinese authorities imposed an unprecedented lockdown on Wuhan, halting travel in and out of the city of 11 million people. The cordon, later extended across Hubei province, became the model for lockdowns adopted worldwide, and was lifted on 8 April 2020.
• 2020 "The Last Dance" documentary airs The ESPN docuseries "The Last Dance," chronicling Jordan and the Bulls' final championship season, becomes a cultural phenomenon during the pandemic.
• 2020 Arvind Krishna becomes CEO — hybrid cloud focus Arvind Krishna, an IBM Research veteran who led the Red Hat acquisition, becomes IBM CEO in April 2020. He immediately articulates a focused strategy: IBM will be the hybrid cloud and AI company for enterprise clients. In October 2020 he announces the spinoff of IBM's managed infrastructure services division — the legacy IT outsourcing business — into a separate company called Kyndryl. The spinoff, completed in November 2021, is the largest in IBM's history and removes $19 billion in low-margin revenue.
• 2020 COVID-19 Vaccine Funding Donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for COVID-19 research, funding that helped develop Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine in its critical early stages. Her name appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine's preliminary report on the vaccine alongside the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.